X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79FCCD1B7E7 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:55:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88675-05 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 21:55:31 -0400 (AST) Received: from hosting.commandprompt.com (216.commandprompt.com [207.173.200.216]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5009D1D643 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 21:55:26 -0400 (AST) Received: from commandprompt.com (clbb-109.saw.net [64.146.135.109]) (authenticated) by hosting.commandprompt.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i0E1tNg19347; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:55:23 -0800 Message-ID: <4004A1BA.7010608@commandprompt.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:56:10 -0800 From: "Joshua D. Drake" Organization: Command Prompt, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane Cc: Peter Eisentraut , Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai , David Fetter , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: The Tutorial(TM) References: <200401080722.53433.peter_e@gmx.net> <20040108075229.GE85110@nexus.ninth-circle.org> <200401081020.00181.peter_e@gmx.net> <11933.1073582096@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <11933.1073582096@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200401/32 X-Sequence-Number: 2248 >2. The SQL Language > 2.1. Introduction > 2.2. Concepts > 2.3. Creating a New Table > 2.4. Populating a Table With Rows > 2.5. Querying a Table > 2.6. Joins Between Tables > 2.7. Aggregate Functions > 2.8. Updates > 2.9. Deletions >3. Advanced Features > 3.1. Introduction > 3.2. Views > 3.3. Foreign Keys > 3.4. Transactions > 3.5. Inheritance > 3.6. Conclusion > >I'd be inclined to put aggregates, transactions, foreign keys, and views >into the "intermediate" category, leaving only inheritance as >"advanced". (Or maybe we should just drop inheritance from the tutorial.) >You could possibly even argue that joins are intermediate instead of >basic, although that's stretching it a bit. > >I agree with Peter's point that the first thing to teach is how to get >data in and out. > > > You could add triggers, rules into advanced features... You could also break joins up so that when talking about outer, left etc... it goes into advanced but basic "join on" or natural joins are in intermediate. J > regards, tom lane > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > > -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-667-4564 - jd@commandprompt.com - http://www.commandprompt.com PostgreSQL Replicator -- production quality replication for PostgreSQL